Triple boot Fedora, XP, and Vista

Benjamin Franz snowhare at nihongo.org
Tue Dec 5 14:46:43 UTC 2006


On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Thom Paine wrote:

> I have this working with XP and Fedora. My system will not boot at all
> when I have the Vista drive plugged in. It won't get past the post.
>
> I've left it and not bothered. If vista is going to be so ignorant, I
> can't be bothered.

Post happens _way_ before the OS is involved. I would guess you have a bad 
cable, a bad port on your controller (M/B?), or a bad drive. In any case, 
it isn't the OS. You have some type of hardware issue.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

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